The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-23

was then mounted inspector, to go up to
FL Paso street where three or four men
were lying dead and half q dozen more were
lying wounded, and put down gang of
desperadoeS who had "taken the town"
The streets were deserted save by the bad
men" who were settling a
difficulty in true Texas style.
Hannah Burns, washerwoman with
Billingsgate tongue, was the only person
who dared to speak her mind and tell the
boys what she thought of the proceedings.
With arms akimbo and her tongue in full
motion she stood in the street and defied the
killers. They would not shoot her; they
could not silence her, and so they let her
alone. No one else dared to oppose the des-
perate fellows who bad already killed sew
eral people. The local police were power
less, and the Mayor, or some OF the citizens,
called on White. He suddenly appeared on
the street with big 'gun" in each hand
and called out: "Jim White win do the
rest of the shooting; get off this street, ;" and
the battle was over.
A few years before he was travelling in a
stage coach when one of the passengers in
suited lady The mild hammered man who
sat opposite the lady called to the driver to
stop the coach. He took the blackguard
out, tied him to tree, stripped him and
gave him
AN UNMERCIFUL LASHING
with the stage drivers whip. He is tall
well-bred, gentle and brave; Texan gem
tleman with blue eve and habit of shoot
ing quick and straight, with ''gun" in each
hand. He wears collars and cuffs, aud
brushes his clothes and keeps his boots pol
ished. If he were to walk down Fourth
street he would be taken for a contracting
freight agent of one of the fast lines, or per-
haps for the general agent Of an insurance
FL Paso county in 1884, and has
held the office ever since. He has a
record for bravery unsurpassed on this
frontier, and is universally respected. He
is not "a bad man" not a desperado; he is
simply fearless man who in an unsettled
condition of society has often found it neceS-
sary to keep the peace by fighting for it, If
no record of the case. If heads were ever
broken with six Shooters and innocent peo-
pie robbed in his presence by desperadoes
who escaped unhurt before the train rob-
berry the Texan reporters have failed to
chronicle the event. Yet, the dispatches
say that White was in the sleeper, which
was rifed, but did not shoot. True he was
not robbed himself, for the bandits left the
coach before coming to his berth; but
that makes no difference The fact
remains that a train has been rifled
when one of the nerviest men of
Texas was on board, one of the quickest
shots, one of the bravest sheriffs with a
record" And what does it all proved
Simply this, that those people who talk
about resisting a systematic and we'll
planned "hold-up," and think if they had
been there they would have headed a sue
cessful attack against the robbers, don't
know what they are talking about. Men
who have been held up tell strange stories
about the diameter of the gun muzzlcs they
looked down. They astonish us with the
descriptions of the eyes of robbers, and how
determined" they looked. The simple fact
is that ''hands up" in Texas means ''hands
up,n and when Jim White lies still in his
berth and listens to a conversation in Span
ish between his wife and Mexican lieuten-
ant, who is subsequently pounded over the
head with q six-shooter and does not show
fight. it is because he knew that in such
cases discretion is the better part of valor.